Capacity Ledger

Nobody Answered, So Your Accelerator Doubles on Entry

Two Chinese CBS producers stopped responding to Commerce, and this morning's preliminary countervailing rate came back at 107.57 percent on everyone, reaching back to entries made on July 10. Also on the file: a Shell catalyst plant in Martinez this desk should have caught in September, an order that issued with a zero in it, a thirty-day window to tell USTR what Europe's carbon border is costing you, and the PM2.5 letters that went out to governors last Friday.


Somewhere around the middle of this year, two Chinese producers of a rubber accelerator decided Commerce's questionnaires were not worth answering.

Commerce published the result this morning. 107.57 percent, countervailing, on every name in the table and on all others besides.

The deposit is larger than the invoice. And it reaches back to July 10.

"Which of this week's new rates actually move money, and how far back does each one reach?"

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